Siobhan MacGowan was born in Brighton, England in 1963. She is the sister of Shane MacGowan, lead singer of the Irish group The Pogues.
Alfred Coppel, Alfredo Jose de Arana-Marini Coppel (November 9, 1921-May 30, 2004) was an American author. Born in Oakland, California, he served as a fighter pilot in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. After his discharge, he started his career as a writer. He became one of the most prolific pulp authors of the 1950s and 1960s, adopting the pseudonyms Robert Cham Gilman and A.C. Marin and writing for a variety of pulp magazines and later "slick" publishers. Though writing in a variety of genres, including action thrillers, he is of some note for his science fiction stories which comprise both short stories and novels.
Giles Lytton Strachey (1 March 1880 21 January 1932) was a British writer and critic. He is best known for establishing a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit. His 1921 biography Queen Victoria was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
Felicia Hemans (25 September 1793 - 16 May 1835) was an English poet.
Charles Macklin (26 September 1690 - 11 July 1797), originally Cathal MacLochlainn, was an actor and dramatist born in Culdaff, a village on the scenic Inishowen Peninsula of County Donegal, part of the Province of Ulster in the north of Ireland. He was one of the most distinguished actors of his day, equally in tragedy and comedy. He gained his greatest fame in the role of Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
Frances Auretta Fuller Victor (May 23, 1826 November 14, 1902) was an American historical novelist. Fuller Victor was born in New York and was raised with her sister Metta Victoria Fuller Victor, also a writer, in Ohio and Pennsylvania. The sisters both published stories and poems in New York's Home Journal, and in 1848 they moved to New York together. Frances moved to St. Clair, Michigan in 1851 to help care for her mother and younger sisters.
Alexander Sutherland (26 March 1852 - 9 August 1902) was a Scottish-Australian educator, writer and philosopher.
